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Chapter 1: Verbal Behavior Analysis and Verbal Development Introduction to Verbal Behavior Analysis The Relation Between Verbal Behavior Analysis and Basic and Applied Behavior Analysis Protocols for Inducing New Verbal Capabilities Selecting a Verbal Topography: Linguistic and Verbal Behavior Contributions Research in Verbal Behavior Analysis Developmental Milestones in Verbal Behavior Chapter 1 Summary Chapter 1 Endnotes



Chapter 2: Teaching and Learning Verbal Operants and Verbal Developmental Capabilities: Definitions and Measurement Selecting Verbal Forms and Functions for Instruction Conducting and Recording Probes Probe Mastery Criterion, Data Collection and Graphing Presenting and Measuring Learn Units Presenting Learn Units Recording and Graphing Verbal Behavior Training Graphs Generalization Graphs Providing and Measuring Accurate Instructional Decisions Research Based Tactics for Intervention General Tactics Generic Pre-Listener-to-Speaker Tactics Generic Tactics for Children with Reader-Writer Capabilities Generic Tactics for Teaching Teachers, Parents, and Behavior Analysts The Learn Unit Context and Learn Unit Components The Decision Protocol: An Algorithm for Analyzing the Source of Learning Obstacles Identification of Decision Opportunities Trend Determination Learn Unit Context Analysis Selection of the Tactic Implementation of the Tactic Details of the Analytic Algorithm Strategic Questions to Ask about Motivational Conditions and Setting Events Strategic Questions to Ask about Instructional Histories and Prerequisite Repertoires Prerequisite stimulus control Measuring and Recording Developmental Milestones Defining Verbal Milestones Chapter 2 Summary



Chapter 3: Learning to Listen: Induction of the Listener Repertoire of Verbal Development The Listener Role in Verbal Behavior Instructional Sequence for Teaching Listener Repertoires Basic Listener Literacy Sequence of Interventions to Induce Basic Listener Literacy (Table 3.1) Developing Initial Instructional Control: Five Basic Attentional Programs Protocol Description for the Five Basic Attentional Programs The Five Attentional Programs: Attention Control to Teacher Listener Emersion Protocol to Develop Vowel-Consonant Control for Listener Responses Other Prerequisites to Basic Listener Literacy Establishing Visual Tracking through Conditioning Eye Contact to Stimuli Sensory Matching or Establishing The Capacity for Sameness across Senses Conditioning Voices as Reinforcers Auditory Matching of Words Auditory Matching Steps Inducing the Listener Component of Naming Chapter 3 Summary Chapter 3 Endnotes



Chapter 4: Basic Teaching Operations for Early Speaker Functions The Behavioral Functions of the Speaker Parroting and Echoics Establishing Operations and Mands Tacts Similarities and Differences between Mand and Tact Instruction Echoic-to-Mand-Procedure (Level 1 of Mand Training) Mand Function Instruction (Level 2 of Mand Instruction) Echoic to Tact Training (Level 1 of Tact Training) Tact Teaching Sequence (Level 2 of Tact Training) Autoclitics with Mands and Tacts Alternative Procedures for Teaching Echoic-to-Mand and Echoic-to-Tact Responses Stimulus-stimulus Pairing Procedure Rapid Motor Imitation Speaker Immersion Inducing Transformation of Establishing Operations Across Mand and Tact Functions Naming Basic Visual Discrimination to Occasion the Advancement of Speaker and Listener Repertoires Inducing Full Naming The Importance of Tacts Procedures for Rapid Expansion of Tacts through Direct Contact with Learn Units Chapter 4 Summary Chapter 4 Endnotes



Chapter 5: Inducing Advanced Speaker Functions and Correcting Faulty Vocal Behavior Advancing Key Verbal Capabilities Inducing and Expanding Tact and Intraverbal Capabilties Tact Capabilities Intraverbal Capabilities Capability 1: Acquisition of new tacts by direct learn units Capability 2: Recruitment of new tacts by using "wh" and "how" questions Capability 3: Acquisition of new tacts incidentally via naming Capability 4: Learning tacts from observation or indirect contact with contingencies received by others Learning Tacts from Observation Instructional Procedure for Teaching Observational Learning of Tacts (Developing Tacts by Observing Others Receive Learn Units) Pre and Post-Intervention Evaluation Probes for Observational Learning of Tacts Yoked-contingency interventions Joint Yoked-contingency and Peer Monitoring Protocol Intraverbal Capabilities and Social Interaction Conversational Units Capability 5: Learning Intraverbal Functions of Self-Talk Capability 6: Acquisition of conversational units and related speaker-listener exchanged Pre and Post Assessment for Conversational Units and Sequilics Acquiring the Listener Reinforcement Component of Social Exchanges General Game Board Description and Set-up Part 1: I spy, 20 questions Part 2-- 20 Questions: Tact and textual response Part 3-- Bingo Part 4-- Peer tutoring with the game board Part 5-- Group instruction with the game board Part 6-- Teaching empathy ("What can you do to help" program) Capability 7: Learning deictic functions or taking the perspective of others Deictic Probes Production program for emission of appropriate talking Replacing Echolalia and Palilalia with Functional Verbal Behavior Fixing Improperly Learned Control of Echoic Responses Textual Test and Textual Stimulus Prompt Protocol Auditory Matching to Correct Faulty Echoic Responding Replacing Vocal Stereotypy with Functional Verbal Behavior Assessing the function of vocal stereotypy Tact Protocol to Replace Palilalia Chapter 5 Summary Chapter 5 Endnotes



Chapter 6: Reading and Writing: Print-Goverened and Print-Governing Verbal Behavior Scope and Purpose of the Print Control Chapter Book Conditioning Protocol Stimulus-Stimulus Pairing Training/Test Trials for Conditioning Stimuli as Reinforcers for Observi Probes for Conditioning Reinforcement for Observing Books Word-Picture Discrimination and Matching Tactics for Teaching Word-Picture and Matching Discrimination Using the Edmark (R) Reading Series Reading Comprehension from Hearing One's Own Textual Responses Multiple Exemplar Instruction Auditory and Visual Components of Reading Responses Adding Print Stimuli to the Joint Control over Speaker and Listener Responding in the Naming Capability Phonetic Reading for Textual Responding: Acquiring the Topography Using the Auditory Matching Protocol in Solving Phonetic Reading Difficulties Motivational Functions of Reading and Writing Establishing the "Need to Read" Establishing the Topography of Writing Establishing the "Need to Write" Chapter 6 Summary



Chapter 7 Problems in Verbal Development, Current Solutions, and a Trajectory for More Solutions Foundations of Speaker and Listener Capabilities When Attention to Teacher is Missing When Attention to Instructional Stimuli is Missing When the Capacity for Sameness is Missing When the Capability to be reinforced for attention to adult voices is missing Capability for Emitting Speaker Verbal Operants When the Capability To Match Consonant/Vowel Combinations Of Spoken Words Is Missing Or Speech Is Faulty When Basic Listener Literacy Is Missing When there are Few Tacts in Repertoire: Expand the Tact Repertoire The Listener Capability Of Naming Is Missing; Implement The Multiple Exemplar Protocol For The Listener Component Of Naming When Capability For Observational Learning of Tacts Is Missing When the Capability of Observational Learning of Tacts is Missing Fixing Faulty Echoic and Intraverbal Repertoires Joining Speaker and Listener Capabilities Speaker-as-own-listener How to Expand Tacts Before Naming is Present Continue Rapid Expansion of the Tact Repertoire Observational learning of tacts and the "Wh" repertoire Expanding observational learning of tacts and the observational learning capability Inducing Observational Learning if it is Missing Stages of Verbal Development A Note on Scientific Evidence Some Suggested Areas of Further Research